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1. Town of ZZT (or any ZZT adventure game of your choice, or Kroz).
2. Bad Mojo
3. Star Control 2 (...generally classified as Adventure, but really a hybrid of everything)
4. Cult (obscure freeware adventure ca. 2000)

Hmm… beyond that, it’s tricky. Most adventure games with a top-down view use a slightly isometric perspective so you can see faces. Games with strict top-down view tend towards strategy/action/RPG/puzzle. And “Adventure” for the Atari isn’t really an adventure game, and if it were, some graphics give the sense of a vaguely isometric perspective. Sorcery! and Sorcery! 2 have top-down maps for the entire game, but… they’re closer to visual novels with lots of adventure elements.

WitchOfDoubt - 22 December 2014 05:03 PM

Hmm… beyond that, it’s tricky.

I thought it was quite easy..you could just list the Monkey Island 1-4 series except 3 probably counts as isometric

I’ll go for these four:
FOA

Carol Reed (any, really)

Broken Sword 2.5

PQ4

Can I go on with the list? I love this topic!

(you’re next WitchOfDoubt)

Ah, see, I thought you meant strictly top-down GAMEPLAY, where you’d only see your character’s head from above and maybe the tips of their feet.

I was able to find 5 examples of that, but it wasn’t trivial!

Name three adventure games where the main character must die for the player to win. It does not count if the death is reversed and the main character recovers, or the main character was dead from the start of the game.

Actually diego, none of the MI titles except MI1 are isometric. Angled, yes, but not equidistant to all positions vertically (like Sanitarium)

Anyway I can’t see how this is different from the MI1 maps.

The idea was that the main character dies, and remains dead, by the end of the game. The player cannot win unless the main character dies. In some cases, this is directly necessary to solve a puzzle. In others, it’s a CONSEQUENCE of the game. It doesn’t count if you were dead from the beginning. The answers I had in mind included, but were not limited to:

* Trilby’s Notes (graphical with text-input; player must actually type “die” to solve the last puzzle)
* Jinxter (text/graphics; winning CAUSES the player character to be hit by a bus, so this is borderline.)
* Blackwell Epiphany (graphical; player character sacrifices self in noninteractive scene)
* Infidel (text; solving final puzzle kills player character.)
* Heroine’s Mantle (text; player-character must sacrifice self in interactive scene)
* The Walking Dead, Season One (graphical; player character is dying in entire final episode. Must either be shot by another character, or just die. The choice of HOW they die is up to the player.)
* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (graphical; player-characters are implied to be physically killed when they destroy AM in “winning” ending, and possibly stick around in the computer in a different form. Final screen is a memorial to them.)

Here’s a new challenge, unless Beardalot has one!

Name three adventure games where the final “puzzle” is an ethical dilemma. Bonus points if it has no “right” answer.